Science fiction is filled with spacecraft. On Earth, actual rockets explode over Texas while others make their way to Mars. But what are spacecraft, and just what can they teach us about imagination, ecology, democracy, and the nature of objects? Why do certain spacecraft stand out in popular culture?

If ever there were a spacecraft that could be detached from its context, sold as toys, turned into Disney rides, parodied, and flit around in everyone's head-the Millennium Falcon would be it. Springing from this infamous Star Wars vehicle, Spacecraft takes readers on an intergalactic journey through science fiction and speculative philosophy, revealing real-world political and ecological lessons along the way.

In this book Timothy Morton shows how spacecraft are never mere flights of fancy.

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

Author: Timothy Morton
Editors: Christopher Schaberg / Ian Bogost
Series: Object Lessons
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Pages: 144pp
Size: 5 x 7.5
Notes: paperback
Release Date: September 23, 2021
ISBN: 978-1501375804